Inequality & Distribution
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History and the Theory Of Income Distribution: Some Perspectives
Apr 8, 2015 | 11:00—11:30
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Financial Regulation That Might Have a Chance of Working
Apr 8, 2015 | 10:45—11:15
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Motivations, Emotions, Decisions
Apr 8, 2015 | 11:15—12:45
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Politics by Other Means? Eurozone Institutions and National Sovereignty in the Bank Bailout Negotiations
Apr 8, 2015 | 06:15—06:45
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Analyzing Growth & Inequality in the 21st Century
Apr 8, 2015 | 06:45—07:15
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Macroeconomic Causes of Inequality
Apr 8, 2015 | 06:30—07:00
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Inequality: Claims about Genes
Apr 8, 2015 | 10:30—11:00
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Economic Growth & Inequality across Time & Space: Where Has Growth Lead to Equality and Why?
Apr 8, 2015 | 06:00—06:30
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Liberté, Égalité, Fragilité
PlenaryApr 8–11, 2015
The Institute for New Economic Thinking held its sixth Annual Conference from April 8 to April 11, 2015, in collaboration with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
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Thomas Piketty & Joseph Stiglitz on Inequality
Apr 7 - May 7, 2015 | 02:30—06:30
Thomas Piketty and Joseph E. Stiglitz discuss the causes of, consequences of, and remedies for inequality.
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Working Paper Series
Household Income, Demand, and Saving: Deriving Macro Data with Micro Data Concepts
Mar 2015
We develop adjustments to align the NIPA measures of key household flows with cash flow concepts that better reflect household budgets and demand.
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Conference paper
Income Inequality and Growth: Problems with the Orthodox Approach
Mar 2015
This paper discusses the main issues about increasing inequality, whether it matters and its impact on economic activity and growth. It starts by briefly considering the empirical evidence of the share of income going to the top one percent since 1945 in the advanced countries. It then considers whether this represents an increase in the productivity of the top one percent or merely an extraction of economic rent.
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Europe and the Challenge of Re-Starting Growth
Mar 13, 2015
How can we reconnect economic success to socioeconomic outcomes?
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Human Capital and Economic Opportunity
The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) is an interdisciplinary collaboration incorporating biological, sociological and psychological perspectives into traditional economic questions of inequality and human capital.
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Political Economy of Distribution
Inequality and distribution—areas underserved by mainstream economics—sit at the heart of The Institute’s work. This program brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to develop alternative approaches to the problem of inequality.